Other World Computing CEO and leadership

Erik Handler is a Marketing and CEO at OK and Chief Executive Officer at Other World Computing and is based in New York City, New York. He attended FARMINGDALE STATE COLLEGE between 2008 and 2012 and FARMINGDALE STATE COLLEGE between 2009 and 2011.

Josh Minney is a leader in bringing innovative products to market through strategic partnerships with top brands. He has raised several rounds of capital for his respective ventures, developed lasting relationships with his investors and created organizational cultures that experience high growth with extremely low turnover. Josh’s ability to leverage community influencers to increase brand value in e-commerce and enterprise technology led to the successful exit of his previous company in 2014. Josh holds a B.A. in International Affairs from Northeastern University.

I've been involved with computer system backups since 1982. Systems range from IBM S36/S38/S88, Wang VS, Wang OIS 140, Convergent Technologies, Commodore Amiga, Tandy TRS-80 XENIX systems, and DEC VMS and Ultrix systems to modern Mac, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD systems.

After purchasing the BRU technologies and customer base from the previous company's parent, I've been running TOLIS Group with a carefully picked team of staff with the primary focus on customer satisfaction, software and system reliability, and improving solution offerings by both designing and developing new technologies and partnering with existing manufacturers' to provide storage, archival, and management solutions to simplify the complex world of storage, backup and archival.

Specialties: In addition to the usual Corporate and Supply chain management, my experience with the administration of large and small scale backup operations, design and development of tape and library hardware, and the architecture of backup software places me into a very small fraternity with the ability to grasp all three primary components in the world of system archival and backup - how the hardware works, how the software works with both the hardware and the filesystems, and what operators expect in the combination of the two technologies.

Ertuğrul Öçal works at Other World Computing and an Owner at ER&KUT Savunma, Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri and Chief at Other World Computing and is based in Turkey. He has worked as Chief at Aselsan. Ertuğrul attended Sakarya Üniversitesi between 2006 and 2010.

Professional finance and operations executive with broad experience working in CFO and COO roles in the US, in high growth businesses. Industry experience includes business services, media (events, exhibitions, conferences and publications) and information technology (SaaS). Over 12 years’ working in private equity backed entrepreneurial environments from ‘start-up’ to $300m revenue, including turn-around stages, recession mitigation planning, fast organic growth and acquisition integration business challenges.

Strong international M&A experience of acquisition strategy development, target assessment, due diligence processes, tax structuring and operational integration of businesses in the US, South Africa, Brazil, the Middle East and across Europe. In depth knowledge of designing, building and executing integration plans across multiple business functions to enable comprehensive alignment of the acquired businesses.

Comfortable in entrepreneurial and ambiguous environments where problem solving and focus on medium term goals is key. Decisive and strategic thinker who listens first and drives change across business departments, working alongside CEOs, business owners and department leaders. Change agent with leadership abilities and the capacity to build, train and mentor highly productive finance and human resources teams. Ability to reshapes teams, mentoring and developing individuals both in the US, the UK and at remote locations. Strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to bridge technical and business audiences, whilst building consensus and support.

Broad experience in FP&A projects having lead the development of short and medium term business plans / budgets to facilitate corporation sales (PE turns), refinancing for acquisitions and projecting business growth. Strong Excel skills from building financial models to align with strategic plans and including commercial factors. Early Big 4 background.

Successes:

• Formed the accounting and finance foundation to enable the carve out of Clarion Events as a standalone business unit and grow from $50m in revenue to $300m over 7 years while completing and integrating 19 international acquisitions.

• Established a new technology start up in the US market, employing a team of 15 staff across sales, engineering, programmers and customer support.

• Re-built a US finance team and stabilized the accounting software to enable reporting of financial and KPI data to Group parent company within 2 months. Transitioned accounting systems from Quickbooks to Workday.